5.) Wes Brown scores comical own goal
Back in November, things weren’t quite going as well as planned for the Eagles. Our number 5 moment comes from a cold Monday night at Selhurst.
Having had two early penalty shouts turned down by referee Phil Dowd, Palace saw themselves trailing to a struggling Sunderland side who hadn’t won on a Monday night since April 2002.
Lady luck momentarily smiled on Palace, on what was a bitter evening for the South London side, when Frazier Campbell back-heeled the ball back into the six yard box, teeing up the calamitous Wes Brown to awkwardly bundle in an equaliser past a very disgruntled Pantilimon.
Despite Brown’s heroics, Crystal Palace were unable to break down the Sunderland defence and eventually succumbed to a 3-1 defeat.
4.) Dwight Gayle swears on Palace Player
Crystanbul was an unforgettable night for most Palace fans and it’s the game’s protagonist, reminiscing about the events that took place that night, who curses his way into number 4.
In one of Chris Grierson’s first interviews for the club, Crystal Palace’s main man behind the mic approached the goal scorers from that 3-3 draw against Liverpool, to hear their thoughts on what was a momentous occasion for the club.
Inexplicably though, the man who scored two on the night, presumably overwhelmed by memories from the night, blurts out the f-word when quizzed about his partnership with Glenn Murray. (Check out the youtube clip from 1:58)
3.) Skill School at Spurs
After a phenomenal 2014/2015 campaign, Yannick Bolasie is now one of the most coveted wingers in the Premier League. However, it was only really after this sublime bit of skill that pundits started taking note and the ‘Bolasie Flick’ lands the mercurial wide-man into 3rd place.
With the ghost of Jason Puncheon’s penalty still looming over White Harte Lane, it was the magic of Christian Eriksen, Yannick Bolasie and Wilfried Zaha that brought life to what could have been a very limp 0-0 draw.
The Dane started off the show with a delicious drag-back skill through the legs of Martin Kelly.
Yannick, saw Eriksen’s skill and raised him two fold with an almost incomprehensible flick to deceive the man himself.
And finally, Wilf, also eager to get in on the action, rounded off this feast of flair play with a neat skill, to shimmy in-between two Tottenham defenders.
2.) Wilfried Zaha takes one for the team.
Zaha’s unorthodox way of showing his desire to improve his goals tally crashes in at number 2.
In what was billed as relegation six-pointer against QPR, it’s safe to say that everyone in the stadium was desperate to take an early lead.
None more so than the Palace Academy Graduate, who took Alan Pardew’s orders of getting inside the post, a bit too literally.
After some good play from Bolasie, the resulting cross was met by the onrushing Zaha, who, directly after putting his side into the lead, was almost split into two by the left-hand post!
1.) Psycho Pearson Manhandles McArthur
The Leicester Boss makes it to number one with probably the maddest managerial moment of the Premier League since Super Al head-butted David Meyler.
As the Foxes broke down the right wing in the closing minutes of the game, James McArthur, in an attempt to stop Marc Albrighton, accidentally fell into the Leicester Boss, knocking him off balance.
Then came one what surely has to be the most bizarre moment of our season as Pearson proceeded to firstly strangle McArthur, before then refusing to let him back onto the pitch.
The only rational explanation, was offered by MOTD pundit Danny Murphy, who alluded to the possibility that Pearson had realised his mistake in not originally signing the Scotsman and was now refusing to let him go for a second time.
To make things even better, Pearson sinisterly rounded off the saga in his post-match interview with the words “I’m more than capable of looking after myself, there’s no doubt about that”
